India to host Junior Hockey World Cup in 2025
India will host next year's men's Junior Hockey World Cup, the Executive Board of the International Hockey Federation announced on Tuesday. The tournament will be held in December and it will be the first time ever that a Hockey Junior World Cup will include as many as 24 teams.
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This was announced by FIH President Tayyab Ikram who said, «Giving more opportunities to play to a larger and more diverse number of National Associations is one of the key pillars of our empowerment and engagement strategy.»
«We saw at the FIH Hockey5s World Cup in Oman this year how more diversity brings a huge added value to our events.
«Therefore, I'm very happy that we've increased the number of participating teams for the FIH Hockey Junior World Cups and I look forward to seeing these 24 young teams, representing the future of our sport, next year!» he added.
The last edition of the tournament was held in Kuala Lumpur in 2023 with Germany emerging winners with a 2-1 win over France. Spain and India took the third and fourth places respectively.
India have, in the past, hosted the tournament three times in 2013 (New Delhi), 2016 (Lucknow) and 2021 (Bhubaneswar). India were the winners of the 2016 edition as well.
«At this stage, I would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to Hockey India for their commitment
